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authorWolfram Sang <wsa@the-dreams.de>2014-04-06 13:37:38 +0200
committerWolfram Sang <wsa@the-dreams.de>2014-04-06 13:53:48 +0200
commit9f02fba84be15aa5df1ae4710fb759658fe87b42 (patch)
treebfd7821edd503038e90bcf09ee04d63c3bb5a267 /Documentation/i2c
parentcf23e3358894181f0204d09fbfc5db167a4d28b5 (diff)
Documentation: i2c: improve section about flags mangling the protocol
Sort the entries alphabetically. Make the introductory paragraph more precise. Skip useless 'Flag' introduction from the entries. Remove trailing white spaces from the file. Add missing I2C_M_STOP entry. Signed-off-by: Wolfram Sang <wsa@the-dreams.de>
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diff --git a/Documentation/i2c/i2c-protocol b/Documentation/i2c/i2c-protocol
index 0b3e62d1f77..ff6d6cee6c7 100644
--- a/Documentation/i2c/i2c-protocol
+++ b/Documentation/i2c/i2c-protocol
@@ -6,8 +6,8 @@ Key to symbols
S (1 bit) : Start bit
P (1 bit) : Stop bit
Rd/Wr (1 bit) : Read/Write bit. Rd equals 1, Wr equals 0.
-A, NA (1 bit) : Accept and reverse accept bit.
-Addr (7 bits): I2C 7 bit address. Note that this can be expanded as usual to
+A, NA (1 bit) : Accept and reverse accept bit.
+Addr (7 bits): I2C 7 bit address. Note that this can be expanded as usual to
get a 10 bit I2C address.
Comm (8 bits): Command byte, a data byte which often selects a register on
the device.
@@ -49,11 +49,20 @@ a byte read, followed by a byte write:
Modified transactions
=====================
-The following modifications to the I2C protocol can also be generated,
-with the exception of I2C_M_NOSTART these are usually only needed to
-work around device issues:
+The following modifications to the I2C protocol can also be generated by
+setting these flags for i2c messages. With the exception of I2C_M_NOSTART, they
+are usually only needed to work around device issues:
- Flag I2C_M_NOSTART:
+I2C_M_IGNORE_NAK:
+ Normally message is interrupted immediately if there is [NA] from the
+ client. Setting this flag treats any [NA] as [A], and all of
+ message is sent.
+ These messages may still fail to SCL lo->hi timeout.
+
+I2C_M_NO_RD_ACK:
+ In a read message, master A/NA bit is skipped.
+
+I2C_M_NOSTART:
In a combined transaction, no 'S Addr Wr/Rd [A]' is generated at some
point. For example, setting I2C_M_NOSTART on the second partial message
generates something like:
@@ -67,17 +76,13 @@ work around device issues:
I2C device but may also be used between direction changes by some
rare devices.
- Flags I2C_M_REV_DIR_ADDR
+I2C_M_REV_DIR_ADDR:
This toggles the Rd/Wr flag. That is, if you want to do a write, but
need to emit an Rd instead of a Wr, or vice versa, you set this
flag. For example:
S Addr Rd [A] Data [A] Data [A] ... [A] Data [A] P
- Flags I2C_M_IGNORE_NAK
- Normally message is interrupted immediately if there is [NA] from the
- client. Setting this flag treats any [NA] as [A], and all of
- message is sent.
- These messages may still fail to SCL lo->hi timeout.
-
- Flags I2C_M_NO_RD_ACK
- In a read message, master A/NA bit is skipped.
+I2C_M_STOP:
+ Force a stop condition (P) after the message. Some I2C related protocols
+ like SCCB require that. Normally, you really don't want to get interrupted
+ between the messages of one transfer.